[In order to identify possible genetic risk factors for cirrhosis, we studied mixed-race (Negroid-Caucasian) inhabitants of the French West Indies and compared: (1) the frequency of 51 HLA-A, -B, -C and -DR antigens in 41 subjects with alcoholic cirrhosis and in two control groups consisting of 41 excessive drinkers free of liver disease and 51 healthy non-drinkers; and (2) the frequency of Gm and Km haplotypes in the same groups.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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